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Aerial Vision and City Planning Aerial Vision and City Planning
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Flight, Spatial Critique, and The Disappearing City Flight, Spatial Critique, and The Disappearing City
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The Broadacre Plan and Jeffersonian Urbanism The Broadacre Plan and Jeffersonian Urbanism
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Democratic Decentralization and Ruralist Utopia Democratic Decentralization and Ruralist Utopia
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4 Jeffersonian Urbanism: Frank Lloyd Wright, Aerial Pattern, and Broadacre City
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Published:October 2015
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Chapter 4 studies the impact of Midwestern aerial vision on a broader scope of 1930s landscape representation by demonstrating the central place of Midwestern image and ideology in the development of new schemes for democratic and utopian urban life, in particular Frank Lloyd Wright’s plan for Broadacre City. Intended to unite both city and countryside into a single space, Wright’s project created a uniquely American and Midwestern template for a new kind of urban landscape—one that integrated the forms and forces of American industrial modernity with the long-standing ideologies and patterns of Jeffersonian agrarian democracy. In order to bring together these two different understandings of space and culture, Wright leaned heavily on two interconnected practices of Midwestern aeriality: the first evident in the deployment of aerial vision as a tool for the rational reordering of both country and city environments, and the second evident in the way Wright and other like-minded planners explicitly embraced the agrarian landscape as a model for their new visions for urban life. The architect’s ideas and the responses they generated underscore the efficacy of the Midwestern landscape as a model for conceiving a much more extensive set of American spatial and cultural revisionings.
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